My right wrist's been bothering me lately (please get the masturbation jokes out of your system now; I will wait).
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...I've been using a Logitech Marble trackball for the past couple of years and it's a huge improvement, but hasn't completely alleviated the problem. Plus, its precision is lousy, making any kind of graphics work a monumental pain, and I haven't even attempted to game with it.
I'm eyeballing a few different brands of vertical mice; anybody have any experience with these things? MS's Natural Wireless Laser Mouse and Evoluent's VerticalMouse 3 look decent, though I admit I am the sort of person who doesn't think he needs more than 3 buttons and a scroll wheel. (Of course, I don't generally buy from Microsoft either, but I'm a big fan of my Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000, despite it being an MS product with unnecessary buttons. Course, the damn thing's huge, and leaves me with limited room for a mouse next to it, which is part of why a trackball helps.) The fact that I don't require extra buttons is probably a plus given that I spend a lot of time in Linux and OSX, which I expect will most likely give me generic drivers.
Anyway, if anybody has any experience with this kind of crap, let me know. I would sure like not to destroy my wrist.
EDIT: ALTERNATELY: does anybody else know anything about wrist splints? (C'mon, there's no way I'm the only guy here who's spent this much of his life clutching a mouse or controller.) I periodically wear a
Tru-Fit splint to bed, but it chafes the hell out of my hand. I imagine it would be less abrasive if I didn't live in the damn desert, but I do, so it does.